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nazarener

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Registered: 2009-02-07

Posts: 19

/ Filesystem is read only

after installing and regular booting i get a lot of errors, basically stating, that the filesystem is read-only.
after login in as root, nothing works (e.g. dhcpcd complains about the ro fs aswell).
my fstab is clean, except some cd entries. there is NO swap or / given at all.
i would fill it in myself, but it is, of course, read only aswell
any suggestions?
btw the root partition should be an ext3

Last edited by nazarener (2009-02-08 08:00:40)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: / Filesystem is read only

Boot the install cd, mount /dev/sda3 under /mnt, and edit /mnt/etc/fstab.  If you just want a bootable system, put "/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1" in fstab.  You may (or may not) want to switch to UUID notation afterward.

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: / Filesystem is read only

This usually happens if you need to fsck your partition. Please post the exact error messages you are given.

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